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Definition of 'daffy'

English

Adjective

(er)
  • a little crazy
  • * 1899 , [http://libtextcenter.unl.edu/cather/writings/shortfiction/westbound.html]
  • Now I'm hungry as a Rocky Mountain lion so come, let's go and get this poor, daffy , tealess widow and wine and dine with her and make it all up.
  • *1909 , Gene Stratton-Porter,
  • *:"You've gone so plum daffy you are forgetting your dinner," jeered her mother.
  • *1922 , F. Scott Fitzgerald, O Russet Witch! ,
  • *:He was daffy about her and she could twist him around her little finger.
  • Synonyms

    * nutty as a fruitcake

    Similar to 'daffy'

    defy, deify, dippy, divvy, dopey, dopy, dobby, dhoby, duppy, divey, dweeby, dubby, dauby, davy